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Article 9 (1)
 

(1) 60 days at the latest before the reference date, the citizens entitled to vote from the Member States of the European Union, other than Romania, who have their domicile or residence in Romania may apply to enter on the special electoral rolls. Their applications shall be submitted in writing to the mayor of the locality of domicile or residence, together with a copy of a valid identity document.


(2) The special electoral rolls include the full name of the Community voter, his/her citizenship and address in Romania.


(3) The model and contents of the application shall be settled by Government Decision, upon the proposal of the Ministry of Administration and Interior with the Permanent Electoral Authority. The application is deemed a public document and falls under the incidence of Article 292 of the Criminal Code.


(4) Within the meaning of this law, by valid identity document of the Community voter or of the Community eligible person, one shall understand any document issued by the Member State, other than Romania, whose citizen is a holder of the document, which is considered an identity document in the issuing state.


(5) The mayor shall communicate the answer to the application to the applicant within 10 days at the most of its registration.


(6) The special electoral rolls shall be signed by the mayor and by the secretary of the administrative-territorial unit. A copy of the special electoral rolls shall be kept by the mayor, and the other one shall be handed in to the court of law under whose territorial jurisdiction the said administrative-territorial unit falls.


(7) The Community voters shall keep their entries on the special electoral rolls until they require to be removed from the rolls thereof or until these entries are removed when they cease to meet the conditions of exercising the right to vote. The removing of the Community voters’ entries from the special electoral rolls shall be operated by the mayor.


(8) The complaints with reference to any omissions, incorrect entries, and any other errors on the special rolls shall be made in writing to the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit, who is obliged to solve them within 3 days at the most of the registration.


(9) The petitions regarding the solving of complaints shall be submitted in writing within 5 days of the notification to the court of law in the jurisdiction of which the citizen of the Member State of the European Union, other than Romania resides, and shall be solved by the court thereof within 3 days at the most of the registration.


(10) Within 30 days before the reference date at the latest, the mayors shall transmit to the Permanent Electoral Authority, in order to carry out the duty referred to in Article 11, copies of the applications of entrance on the special electoral rolls, together with the copies of the identity documents. 8


(11) The mayor shall make copies of the special electoral rolls, which include the Community voters in each polling station. Two days before the reference date, the mayor shall submit two samples of the copies of the special electoral rolls, on a statement of poll basis to the electoral bureau of the polling station. A sample shall be placed at the electors’ disposal for consultation, and another one shall be used on the reference date. A third sample of the copy shall be kept by the mayor.


(12) The copies of the special electoral rolls shall be signed by the mayor and by the secretary of the administrative-territorial unit.


(13) The copies of the special electoral rolls shall include the full name of the Community voter, his/her citizenship and address in Romania, according to the application which has enabled the Community voter to enter on the special electoral rolls, the number of the polling station, as well as a column for the voter’s signature.


(14) Any inconsistency between the special electoral roll and its copy shall be solved by the mayor, by order, on the basis of the data included in the special electoral roll.


(15) The mayor shall communicate immediately in writing to the electoral bureau of the polling station any alteration which occurs in the special electoral roll, after the handing in of the copy to the electoral bureau of the polling station.


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*Introduced by G.E.O. no. 1/2007 and amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.